Rainbow for Aqila
Letterbox

Darren is still sitting in the front waiting chair of the operating room in full prayer clothes, the clock has shown at nine o'clock in the evening, the sky began to darken with stars as decoration, the clock is bright, but the operating room indicator light is still on, a sign of action there is still ongoing. It had been five hours Aqila was there lying in a cold room undergoing painful surgery with life support equipment installed on her body

"Eat first, don't get sick waiting for the sick" Darren looked at the young man who had approached his sister this afternoon, thrusting him bread and a bottle of water

"Thank you" Darren accepted it with a hint of an interested smile from the corner of his lips

"Aqila's sister huh?" Darren replied with a short nod

"Where do you know him?" Darren finished the piece of bread in his mouth and looked at the man who seemed to have quite a close relationship with his sister

"By the road" The short answer Reynald gave was enough to make Darren furrow his brows

"He was like a madman who wanted to crash himself deliberately in the middle of a car, that's when I pulled him and he woke up from the crazy action" Darren was surprised to hear, Aqila ever wanted to give up on her life?

"But yes when I found out about his illness, I slightly changed my way of thinking if maybe he was tired of his pain all this time" understood the meaning of Darren's gaze on him, Reynald spoke again

"The mother of one of the nurses here, she was fairly close to Aqila probably because of one country so they often talked together, when I showed her the house you occupied yesterday, he told me that Aqila had the disease"

"Thank you for worrying about it"

"We were friends from four hours ago, so let me worry about my friend?" Darren paused for a moment to look at the man, as a fellow male he knew enough that the man's eyes were staring at his sister with an unusual look

"Aren't you going home? Your mother must be worried about you" Darren said, switching the conversation

"It's America, a free country, if I go home tomorrow, mom won't tell me to get married if she knows I'm having fun with my friends" Darren said, anyone knows that if the association of this country is so free, playing women and alcohol is common in their association

"****!!!, I forgot tonight I was going to do a practical assignment with my friend, we had to finish it immediately before the summer break"

"Then what are you doing by staying here?" Reynald glanced at the door of the operating room that was still tightly closed, the indicator light was still on the sign of the operation action is still ongoing

"I was with him, after all he was not immediately aware after the operation was completed" said Darren who understood Reynald's direction of thought

"I'm sorry I can't keep you company, I'll pray that he gets through it"

"Thank you"

Darren saw the blue-eyed man's body start to drift away, everything was silent again, only a few people passed by from there, his heart skipped a beat glancing at the door that was still tightly closed. Until eleven o'clock at night, there was no sign that the door of the room would open, even though the operation had been running seven hours. Darren couldn't imagine how cold it was for that long, he had the longest operation with a five-hour senior doctor, and after getting out of it his body went limp like he was losing steam

"So sure you are strong Aqila, fight once more, happiness is waiting for you when you open your eyes" the do'a never breaks from the tongue, pleading with the creator, because only he can change everything

Ting

Notification of incoming messages from the phone made him quite surprised, he thought the door of the cold room was open

"Aqila is still struggling" was the only sentence she was able to give in response for now

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The scorching sun was suddenly covered in cloudy clouds that afternoon, a gentle breeze blowing slowly blew the tip of the leaves of the coconut tree, only the sound of the pounding waves were heard breaking the silence

After graduation and a series of short photos that he did with his family, he chose this place to calm his disappointed heart, because his reflection will today not be as beautiful

He told his friends to be alone for now, thank God they understood, and here he was now, on the beach where their last meeting was, when he and Aqila still remembered each other

Naufal looked around, the atmosphere of the beach was quite quiet, probably because the access road was still not paved, only dry land filled with dust

Naufal bowed, he smacked his head slowly, supposing, that day he would have been more careful to drive, surely he was married and lived with Aqila, but still the destiny of the god who wills over everything, man must patiently face and believe there will be beautiful wisdom behind it

Naufal reached into his pants pocket, taking the light blue paper that Rian had left for him from the person who had a special place in his heart, the girl who had made him feel the love of men to the real woman

"Assalamu'alaikum pelangiku,

How are you doing there? You must be happy?"

Naufal shook his head looking at the uppermost sentence written in the letter, happy how? If at any time Aqila's shadow haunts her

"Sorry, sorry and sorry for everything, I left without saying goodbye, I went when you slept with your dreams, I left while you were struggling with your illness, can you forgive me?

I was happy when Brother Darren, Brother Rian and Reyna told me you were conscious, but I was a little sick when I found out you had no memory of me at the time, did I come to take my pain for you or did you think of me as something that hurt you until your subconscious erased the memory of me?"

Naufal could again only shake his head, loving Aqila was painless for him, but every time he saw the tears that came out of the girl's beautiful eyes and the look of pain on her face while enduring the pain in her head, it was painful for Naufal, his heart would cry too to see that

"I'm sorry, do you still have your love for me? Don't you intend to remove it? My six months of chemotherapy here failed, and I had to do the surgery right today, yes today, the day you graduated and read this letter"

Naufal's hand trembled, a drop of tears soaking the blue paper, about a speck of bloodstain that also seemed dry there, Naufal's heart was like being squeezed by something invisible

"When you read this letter, it means I'm struggling, fighting in a cold room and fighting between life and death"

"Don't cry, this is my request, multiply the do'a because with the do'a, even the impossible can become possible"

"But if fate says otherwise, it means we are not meant to be together in this world, the soul mate who came to me first is death who always lurks and today he is ready to pick up without any notice"

"I wish you could live happily without me, you once told me that another dream was impossible then pursue another dream, and today I say that phrase to you, chase your other rainbow dreams, don't just focus on these gray clouds"

"Last I will say thank you, Naufal is indeed like a rainbow for Aqila, colorful, bringing happiness and only temporary, because maybe Aqila will go"